Books
“Get Beethoven!”
Paul Cassidy
Matador 978-1-838-59342-1 264pp (pb) £10.47 Paul Cassidy has been violist of the Brodsky Quartet since 1982. The ensemble’s 50th anniversary falls next year and ahead of a book celebrating that and his own 40 years with them comes this witty and forthright memoir of his turbulent early life in Derry, Northern Ireland.
The youngest child of 16, Cassidy grew up in a city fraught with violence and injustice, and he pulls no punches in hair-raising
